macabre

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmacabrema‧ca‧bre /məˈkɑːbrə, -bə $ -brə, -bər/ adjective UNPLEASANTvery strange and unpleasant and connected with death or with people being seriously hurt a macabre tale a macabre sense of humourExamples from the Corpusmacabre• These drawings of the dead are moving rather than macabre.• Politics, blocked, has turned macabre.• Here sea, death and physical passion combine in a macabre and concrete image.• Although the spectacle had macabre entertainment value, a fundamental question got buried in the slime: Did Carey finagle the books?• And though this may sound macabre, I did enjoy last night once it got going.• a macabre sense of humor• Dimitri's enquiry didn't seem in the least strange or macabre to me.• It adds a macabre touch to the bones from the hospital.• Just as macabre was the 8 for 28 collapse at Leeds.Origin macabre (1400-1500) French (danse) macabre “dance of death”, from earlier (danse de) Macabré, perhaps from Medieval Latin chorea Maccabaeorum “dance of the Maccabees”, a representation of the killing of the Maccabees, a Jewish family of Bible times

单词	macabre
释义	macabre From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmacabrema‧ca‧bre /məˈkɑːbrə, -bə $ -brə, -bər/ adjective UNPLEASANTvery strange and unpleasant and connected with death or with people being seriously hurt a macabre tale a macabre sense of humourExamples from the Corpusmacabre• These drawings of the dead are moving rather than macabre.• Politics, blocked, has turned macabre.• Here sea, death and physical passion combine in a macabre and concrete image.• Although the spectacle had macabre entertainment value, a fundamental question got buried in the slime: Did Carey finagle the books?• And though this may sound macabre, I did enjoy last night once it got going.• a macabre sense of humor• Dimitri's enquiry didn't seem in the least strange or macabre to me.• It adds a macabre touch to the bones from the hospital.• Just as macabre was the 8 for 28 collapse at Leeds.Origin macabre (1400-1500) French (danse) macabre “dance of death”, from earlier (danse de) Macabré, perhaps from Medieval Latin chorea Maccabaeorum “dance of the Maccabees”, a representation of the killing of the Maccabees, a Jewish family of Bible times
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